“The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer is a frame narrative, or a story in which a main story incorporates or frames a number of other stories. The purpose of the frame tale in frame narratives is essentially to provide the other stories a context; it typically has little storyline of its own. The following stories, on the other hand, are often of a different genre and have a distinct beginning, middle, and finish. The journey to Canterbury serves as the poem’s frame narrative in “The Canterbury Tales”.